and healthcare engagement solutions, today announced that Allegiance Health Management in Shreveport, Louisiana selected MEDHOST's integrated Enterprise Clinical and Financial solutions, along with the YourCareCommunity patient and provider portal for eight of their facilities.

Allegiance Health Management chose MEDHOST for its excellent track record in providing quality solutions and support in the corporate space along with the solutions' proven user experience. MEDHOST's scalable platform will enhance Allegiance Health Management's ability to streamline corporate standards, and contain costs as additional facilities are acquired.

Allegiance Health Management owns and operates behavioral, long-term acute care (LTAC), and short-term acute care healthcare facilities throughout Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas. One of the Allegiance Health Management's hospitals, Sabine Medical Center, in Many, Louisiana has been a MEDHOST client since 2004, utilizing their Enterprise Clinical and Financial solutions. Sabine Medical Center's experience with MEDHOST proved to be instrumental in choosing MEDHOST as their vendor of choice for the eight facilities.

Allegiance Health Management plans to utilize all of the MEDHOST Enterprise system's applications, patient and provider portal, and the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), with implementations beginning in the fourth quarter of this year.

"Through our experience with MEDHOST's solutions at Sabine Medical Center and from our evaluations of multiple software platforms, MEDHOST was clearly the best choice for not only providing quality solutions but also having the best EDIS platform and being cost-effective in the long run," said Scott Markstrom, Chief Financial Officer at Allegiance Health Management. "Additionally, MEDHOST has already proven its ability to effectively work with multi-entity, corporate providers with the solutions establishing a solid, scalable foundation for the future."

"Allegiance Health Management has taken a thorough approach to ensure that they acquire scalable and quality solutions to help them enhance their corporate operations with our MEDHOST Enterprise Clinicals, Financial solutions, Patient and Provider Portal, and Emergency Department Information System," said Bill Anderson, Chairman and CEO at MEDHOST. "Long-term and short-term acute care facilities and behavioral hospitals, like Allegiance Health Management, have unique clinical and financial challenges, and we are excited that we are providing the latest available technology and innovative solutions to help overcome these challenges."

About Allegiance Health ManagementAllegiance Health Management based in Shreveport, Louisiana, is the parent company for 12 acute and post-acute hospitals currently operating in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. Allegiance Health Management is driven to meet the needs of our patients and offer exceptional customer service. Allegiance Health Management offers a range of medical facilities and services to its customers.

About MEDHOSTMEDHOST® is a provider of market-leading enterprise, departmental and healthcare engagement solutions to more than 1000 healthcare facilities. Our integrated product portfolio includes intuitive, cloud-based solutions, including YourCareEverywhere, a robust health and wellness consumer engagement platform. Our broad offering of hosting, outsourcing, marketing and consulting services are changing how clinicians and hospital leaders work and collaborate, while generating notable operational improvements. MEDHOST delivers value by enabling hospitals of all types and all sizes to better manage the business of healthcare across the care continuum while meeting evolving regulatory requirements.

Connect with MEDHOST on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.Contact:Samra KhanEnterprise Brand Manager at MEDHOST615.761.2119Samra.Khan@medhost.com

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